Chapter 349: The Trumpet Lifts and the City Gate Closes
As the saying goes: there are 1,000 people, and 10,000 people are boundless.
When Huang Budo and Guo Li rode their war horses all the way towards the south gate of Sizhou County, a large number of grassland soldiers rushed in this direction after hearing the warning horn.
When Huang Budo looked back, he found that the grassland soldiers behind him had changed from a few dozen people just now to a large area of Wuyang and Wuyang.
"Lao Guo, you see that these two of us have provoked so many people to come to hunt down!"
In the face of so many grassland soldiers, Huang Budo did not panic, but he was still in the mood to joke.
"Now you are still in the mood to joke, if we can't escape today, I'm afraid we will end up in pieces."
Guo Li saw that Huang Budo was still joking at this time, and he had to admire Huang Budo's courage.
"I'm afraid what's the use, after being caught up by this group of barbarians, it's just a big deal, it's just a death, but if they want to kill Lao Tzu, it's a dream, and when it's really impossible to do anything, Lao Tzu can't let these barbarians get their wish even if they wipe their necks."
Huang Budo snorted coldly and said coldly.
"I think we'll kill a few barbarians before it's enough!" 、
Guo Li also said with a resolute face.
Just as a large number of grassland soldiers were rushing in the direction of Huang Budo and Guo Li, Mu Hua, Li Falcon, and his party also quickly rushed out of the Tan Mansion.
"You go and tell the people below that if you can catch it alive, try to catch it alive."
Mu Hua Li Falcon turned his head and ordered Murong Tongwei and Wan Qi Yuele.
The two immediately arranged for people to ride their horses and quickly head towards the south gate of Sizhou County.
At this time, the three An Su who were hiding in the crowd deliberately lowered their heads and tried not to let Mu Hua, Li Falcon and others see them.
After all, Ansu once attacked the base camp of the grassland army with Li Yi and the others.
Although the battle was a night raid, Ansu did not dare to guarantee that there were any grassland people who could see his face clearly.
"Ann senior, my father ······"
Just when An Su was trying to hide himself, Zhang Wenlong beside him pulled his sleeve excitedly and whispered.
An Su had no choice but to quietly look in the direction of Muhua Li Falcon.
Sure enough, not far behind Mu Huali Falcon, he saw an old man wearing Dayu's costume.
The old man was emaciated, and the three long beards under his chin were already a little pale, but they added a bit of a sense of dust to him.
It's just that at this time, he is holding his chest and looking weak.
"Wenlong, why did your father follow behind the grassland people? Isn't it his original spies of the prairie people? ”
Zhang Zhou looked at Zhang Wenlong suspiciously.
"Brother Zhou, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense!"
Zhang Wenlong was immediately angry by Zhang Zhou's words.
Anyone who hears someone framed their father for no reason can't help it.
"But, look······"
Zhang Zhou wanted to say something more, but when he turned his head, he found that An Su was staring at him with fierce eyes.
"Do you think your life is too long? Don't look at what this place is! ”
Immediately, An Su lowered his voice and scolded Zhang Wenlong.
The two of them reacted when they were reminded by An Su, and at this time they were in the midst of an army of tens of thousands of grasslands.
"Senior An, my father is definitely not a spy of the grassland barbarians, I can swear to God."
Zhang Wenlong's face was full of anxiety at this time, he was afraid that Ansu would be unhappy and chose not to save his father.
"I'm sure your father wasn't like that."
Ansu gently patted him on the shoulder, signaling him not to be nervous.
"Ann Ye ······"
"Shut up! There are some things that you should not jump to conclusions without figuring them out. ”
Zhang Zhou's words were directly interrupted by An Su before he could speak.
Seeing this, Zhang Zhou could only bow his head stupidly.
"Senior An, how should we approach my father now?"
Zhang Wenlong was already a little impatient at this time, he thought that it would take a lot of effort to find his father, but he didn't expect to have a clue so soon.
But what made him feel embarrassed was that since his father was now with the upper echelons of the grassland tribe, it had become difficult for them to get close to him.
"It doesn't matter, although I don't know what happened at the South City Gate, but it should be that someone broke in, and now a large number of grassland troops are pouring towards the South City Gate, maybe these grassland high-level officials will also go there in person, so maybe we can have a chance to contact your father next."
Ansu could only comfort Zhang Wenlong at this time.
And after Zhang Wenlong listened, he could only try to restrain his excitement.
At the same time, in a dense forest outside Sizhou County, Jing Zizheng and others were anxiously waiting for news from An Su and others at this time.
"Jing Gongzi, no, you heard a strange sound suddenly coming from the city of Sizhou County."
Suddenly, Zhang Wenhu suddenly ran back quickly from the edge of the dense forest.
He shouted as he ran.
"What sound?"
As soon as Jingzi heard Zhang Wenhu say that he heard a strange sound coming from Sizhou County, he immediately got up and walked towards the edge of the dense forest.
But until he stepped out of the forest, he heard no sound.
"Wenhu, did you hear it wrong? What's the sound of? ”
Keiko asked with a frown.
"No sound? Can't you hear me? ”
Zhang Wenhu was a little strange when Jingzi asked like this.
So he went to the edge of the forest again, and listened with his ears sideways.
"There's a voice! And it's still so loud, can't you hear it? ”
After reconfirmation, Zhang Wenhu frowned and said suspiciously.
"I'll hear it!"
Hai Yin saw that Zhang Wenhu and Jing Zizheng had their own opinions, so he also walked to the edge of the dense forest and pricked up his ears to listen carefully.
"I didn't hear anything!"
After listening for a while, Hai Yin also looked at Zhang Wenhu with a puzzled expression.
"I kid you not, there really is a strange noise in the city."
Zhang Wenhu saw that Jing Zizheng and Hai Yin both said that they didn't hear the sound, so he immediately said anxiously.
Then the others also went to the edge of the dense forest to listen carefully, but no one could hear the sound.
"Huzi, don't mess around anymore, your eldest brother and the other two heroes went to the city to find your father, we are all worried now, don't make any more trouble."
At this time, Zhang Taoshi, who was no longer in serious trouble, reprimanded his second son with a dissatisfied face.
"Mother, I really didn't mess around or lie to you, I really heard strange noises."
Zhang Wenhu saw that his mother didn't believe him, and at this time he was so anxious that he was crying.
"Wait, Wenhu, hum that voice to us."
Just when Zhang Tao was about to continue to reprimand his son, Jing Zizheng's originally puzzled face suddenly showed a trace of surprise.
Immediately, he asked Zhang Wenhu to hum out the voice he heard.
So Zhang Wenhu immediately hummed out the voice he heard.
"It's like the rhythm of a horn."
Hai Yin said with some uncertainty after listening to Zhang Wenhu's snort.
"Can you hear the meaning of the trumpet?"
As soon as Jingzi heard Hai Yin say that Zhang Wenhu's humming sound might be the sound of a horn, he immediately asked Hai Yin.
"This trumpet is a warning to everyone: someone has broken in."
Before Hai Yin could speak, Yu Zhenlei next to him immediately opened his mouth to answer for him.
As soon as Yu Zhenlei's words came out, the hearts of everyone present couldn't help but sigh.
"Did they find out?"
This thought came to everyone's mind.
"Probably unlikely!"
Keiko's first reaction was not to believe it.
If it was someone else who entered the Sizhou county town, he might still be worried about accidents, but the leader who infiltrated the Sizhou county town this time was Ansu, and he was still very relieved.
Although Ansu usually looks a little reckless, he can pretend to be these.
After all, it is impossible for a person without brains to become the leader of Huangfeng Village by virtue of the identity of a foreigner.
Even if all his subordinates rebelled later, he was still able to escape by chance, which shows that An Su is actually an extremely delicate and intelligent person.
"This horn may not be because An Jun and they have been exposed, maybe there are other people in the city."
Qi Chao said a little anxiously.
Ever since Ansu was betrayed by his subordinates, Qi Chao and Qi Ning have been closely entangled with his fate.
After getting along for such a long time, Qi Chao has long regarded An Su as one of his closest people.
So he really couldn't accept that Ansu was in danger for them.
"The Qi Dynasty is right, maybe there are still some people left in the city, and the horn blown by the grassland people is that they are arresting the people."
Qi Ning also didn't want to believe that Ansu was in danger.
"In any case, don't worry, maybe Miss Qi and Gongzi Qi are right!"
Keiko immediately spoke.
He knew that no matter how anxious they were now, it would be useless, and the only thing they could do now was to pray to the Heavenly Gods and Buddhas for their protection and the safe return of An Su and the others.
"Oh no, those steppe barbarians seem to be preparing to close the city gates."
Just as Keiko was just opening his mouth to reassure everyone, another voice came out of place.
When everyone turned their heads, they found a tall and thin man holding a cylindrical thing in his hand, facing the south gate of Sizhou County.
This person is the apprentice of the Anzhou Jiedu envoy and the eldest disciple of the Mo family's craftsman, Jin Shi.
And the cylindrical thing he was holding in his hand was Li Yi's telescope.
Previously, because Qi Ning liked to use this telescope to look at the stars in the sky, she asked for this thing from Li Yi.
Although Qi Ning said that she would borrow the telescope at that time, she hadn't thought about exactly when she would return it.
When he was in Huaishui, Jin Shi would often see Qi Ning sitting on the deck with this telescope at night and looking at the stars in the sky.
So he asked Qi Ning curiously what this telescope was.
At that time, because Qi Ning was in a good mood, she gave Jin Shi a good explanation of this thing.
And she also deliberately focused on the fact that this thing was made by Li Yi himself.
So Jin Shi became interested in this telescope.
Several times he wanted to take the telescope apart to get a closer look at the inner workings.
But when Qi Ning's Emei thorn was pressed against his neck, he had to dispel his desire to learn.
After all, if his life is lost, then he really won't have a chance to study those mysterious mechanisms anymore.
And since this thing was made by Li Yi, he could have asked Li Yi about the structure of the telescope.
"They're going to close the gates?"
Jingzi was taken aback when he heard this, he quickly stepped forward and snatched the telescope from Jin Shi's hand, and then put the telescope in front of his eyes.
Sure enough, in the lens of the telescope, you can clearly see that the south gate of Sizhou County is slowly closing.
Moreover, he could also see that at this time, there were many grassland soldiers flying around at the gate of Sizhou County, like headless flies.
"Something doesn't seem right!"
Keiko looked at it for a while, then put down the binoculars in his hand and muttered to himself.
"Show me!"
Just as Jin Shi was about to take the telescope back, Hai Yin snatched it away.
"In this case, if I guess correctly, the opposite side is besieging the cavalry."
After all, Haiyin used to be a grassland person, and he knew a lot about the way the grassland people behaved.
Therefore, he was able to see some of the unknown details at the first time.
"Cavalry? Haijun, why are you sure that they are besieging cavalry? ”
Qi Chao didn't quite believe Hai Yin's judgment.
Because in his opinion, judging that the steppe soldiers were rounding up the cavalry just because they closed the city gate was really too arbitrary.
"It's very simple, do you think about how many people are on the other side of this city at this time?"
Hai Yin didn't answer directly, but he opened his mouth to ask Qi Chao.
"About 20,000 people!"
Qi Chao immediately replied without thinking.
"Then do you think that so many people are arresting a few ordinary people and need to close the city gates?"
"This ······"
Qi Chao couldn't help but be speechless.
Because Hai Yin analyzed it well, if these steppe people were capturing ordinary people, they wouldn't need to be so agitated at all, and even have to close the city gates.
With the cavalry of the steppe tribe alone, they could make those ordinary people unable to run a distance of ten paces.
But now they are about to close the city gate with a roar, so the only possibility is that the other party is also cavalry.
Moreover, they must have been ready to rush out of the city at the first time, and the steppe cavalry could not subdue the opponent in a short time.
"Could it be that Senior Ann and my brother have already found my father? And they also managed to grab the war horses of the steppe tribe? ”
Zhang Wenhu couldn't help but be happy when he heard this.
If things really turned out to be his thoughts, then it would be even more difficult for the steppe soldiers to hunt them down if they had just escaped the steppe army and rushed out before the gates were closed.
"It's unlikely!"
Keiko rightly shook her head and said.
"Why?"
Everyone asked, puzzled.